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The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson
Texas Troopers Crack Down on Migrant “Gotaways” plus WH Moves to Protect Conservatives from Financial Discrimination
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Host 1
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Ben Ferguson
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Ben Ferguson
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Ben Ferguson
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Host 1
Are you considering taking over the D.C. police?
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Ben Ferguson
Is that an option on the table?
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Guest 1
We're considering it, yeah. Because the crime is is ridiculous. I could show you A chart comparing D.C. to other locations and you're not going to want to see what it looks like now. We want to have a great, safe capital and we're going to have it. We're going to beautify the city. We're going to make it beautiful. What a shame. The rate of crime, the rate of muggings, killings and everything else, we're going to let it. And that includes bringing in the National Guard, maybe very quickly, too.
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Ben Ferguson
You're listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
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Co-Host 2
Good Saturday morning to you, Ben Ferguson with you.
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Co-Host 1
And these are some of the stories.
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That you may have missed that we talked about this week on the 47 Morning Update. First up, the White House nabbing a number of bad hombres with very little border crossings. And the media is not telling you.
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About how successful this administration is at flat finding those that are breaking into.
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This country that are a threat to all of us.
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Plus, we're hearing now from Donald Trump's.
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White House, an executive order is on its way over debanking of conservatives by small, mid sized and especially large banks that are attacking conservatives and Christians solely based because of their belief system. I'll break that down for you in a second.
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Co-Host 2
With them it's the 47 Morning Update.
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Co-Host 1
And it starts right now.
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Ben Ferguson
Story number one I want to get.
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To another important issue. It's a big one and it's one that so many Americans have, especially the media, have really, really, really overlooked it completely. That's part of what I like to do here is bring you different information that others are refusing to cover. And this one is one that is really interesting because the number of arrests of migrant gotaways continuing now in Texas despite record low apprehensions at the border. The media doesn't want you to know how many bad hombres we have right now in this country. The Texas Department of Public Safety troopers, the National Guardsmen and the Border Patrol agents are continuing to arrest migrants who.
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Illegally cross the border between the ports.
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Of entry and made their way into the US Interior. The Trump administration has just released more info. Recent arrests include three Chinese nationals who got away from the border border after crossing near Mission, Texas. What we now know is that this was an operation that Texas DPS did. They post a video to social media showing the continuing activities of the troopers. The Garment and Border Patrol agents who despite these record low apprehension of the border said now their job is to find migrants being smuggled into the interior of Texas after not being Apprehended at the border. Law enforcement teams they say are real problems, are having, facing real problems because they're going after and contingencies drugs that are being smuggled into Texas. You have human smuggling arrests that are, are, are still happening each and every day. You have K9 teams now that are actually being able to do their jobs by tracking and assisting U.S. border Patrol in the tracking of these drugs. We're seeing drug seizures, they said in Brownsville, Texas. Stolen vehicles that are being used by the cartels and others that are being got that are, that are grabbed in Laredo, Texas, for example. This is just some of what is happening at the border. We also know this past week that smugglers were sentenced to 10 years in prison. You've got pursuits to ranch tracks to, to all these missions that are happening and they're wanting people to understand what's going on here. Now one example that was reported was on July 31. One of the videos they put out show Border Patrol mounted patrol teams tracking migrants in Duvall County, Texas. The team tracked the illegal alien to attempt to escape by using thick brush as cover. That's where the Tex DPS K9 team managed to apprehend the two illegal aliens and turn them over to Border Patrol agents. Now, they weren't able to do this type of work before because they were babysitting illegal immigrants to the border under the Biden administration. Earlier on Thursday, for example, they reported the arrest of these three Chinese nationals that were apprehended near Mission, Texas after clearing the border without encountering a Border Patrol agent. And this is part of the problem now the troopers say we're getting to do our jobs. Now they were to stop the human smuggling attempts. Last week, also in Dement County, Texas, they pulled over a Florida driver. The troopers found two Mexican nationals illegally present in the US Hiding in the rear cargo area of the suv. Again, another example of the bad hombres that we're talking about. On July 3, for example, it was reported the arrest of 10 illegal aliens near mission. These included four migrants from Uzbekistan. Now why does that matter? Well, it's a hotbed for terrorism. That's one of the big concerns here is that how many people have come in this country illegally that are terrorists and wanting to do things and do real hard farm inside the United States of America. Now in June, to put this in perspective of where we are now because of a, a strong border security from this President Donald Trump, Border patrol agents apprehended 3,995 migrants who illegally crossed the border into five Texas based sectors. Let me just explain to you the difference between June of this year And June of 2024, when Joe Biden was like, everybody come in. We have an open border. They caught 30,766 compared to 3,995 one year apart. What changed? A president that is enforcing the law. The southwest land border encounters that were reported and published by the U.S. customs and Border Protection said, this is now going back to a point that we can manage and protect the border compared to what it was now. If you do the math on that, this represents a drop of now more than 87% year over year. The June apprehension numbers are also down from 5,491 migrants apprehended in May. So this is also sending a message around the world you probably don't want to try because you're going to get caught. And it's not an open border that we had under the radicals in the Biden regime. Border apprehensions in the Texas based sectors in June accounted for approximately 66% of all migrants apprehended along the southern border with Mexico. Nearly 4,600 migrants were apprehended in all nine Border Patrol sectors along the southwest border border in July. That marks yet another historic low for the Trump administration. So Kristi Noem put it out this way and she said in her tweet where she was going through all these numbers and again, why is the media not telling you how safe the border has become? Because they don't want you to know this. Okay? History made again is how Krissy Noem put it. The numbers don't lie. This is the most secure the border has ever been. President Donald Trump didn't just manage the crisis, he obliterated it. No more excuses, Kristi Noem said. No more releases. We put the car cartels on defense and taken our border back. She then said in July, the lowest nationwide encounter number ever, 24, 630. That is down 2.4% from June. But here's the number that you're going to care about. It's 90 lower than the monthly average under the last administration. The lowest border patrol apprehensions nationwide, also 6,177. That shattered, by the way, June's all time low as well. She went on to say this. The lowest southwest border apprehensions we've ever seen, 4,598. Nearly 500 fewer than the daily average under the last administration, which average 5110 apprehensions per day from February of 2021. To December of 2024. We also have the lowest daily apprehension average, just 148 per day. That's lower than the average rate of 152 apprehensions every two hours under the Biden administration last July alone. So we're doing 148 a day in apprehensions. They were doing 152 every two hours, every hour of the day, 247 last July. And then she finally says this. The lowest single day apprehensions in history, 88 at the southwest border, 116 nationwide on July 20. Now, look at the calendar right now and where we are. What you're hearing and what we're seeing from Border Patrol agents and from the Trump administration is that the word is getting out. Do you really want to go into incredible debt to try to come to America to immediately get caught and then be sent home? Do you want to pay these smugglers to get you in and you're going to get caught? You look at the lowest single day apprehension in history, 88, the Southwest border and 116 nationwide on July 20th. Now, I say that because you may say, well, okay, hold on. Maybe there was a bad weather day. No, it wasn't. It was actually a great weather day. Why, Nate, on July 20th, did you have these numbers drop that much?
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Because that's the last day we have reported.
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And public access to what Donald Trump is doing is he's going after and using ice and they're going after the illegal immigrants everywhere they are, including sanctuary cities. Word is getting back to the smugglers and the human traffickers and those that were paying them that it may not.
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Be worth you paying them, because you're.
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Probably not going to make it. And that is how Trump is making America safe again.
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Ben Ferguson
Now, story number two.
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In a major move to protect all Americans, the White House, we're now being told, is Protestant, preparing a new executive order that would fine banks small, medium, and the largest for dropping customers for political reasons. The Wall Street Journal is reporting on it now. The order directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions might have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity act, antitrust laws or consumer financial protection laws, the Journal reported, citing a draft text of the order. The order, which could be signed as early as this week, provides for monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures against violators. The order also directs regulators to strike policies they have that might have contributed to banks dropping certain customers and requires the Small Business association to review the practices of banks that guarantee the agency's loans. Now, this is a major move for protecting specifically conservatives that have been debanked by large banks and small banks alike. There are many in the Second Amendment community that have also been debanked as well. There are Christian organizations that have been debunked, missionary organizations that have been debunked, and conservative organizations that have been debanked, especially during the Biden years. Now, the president saying, you can't do that. It's un American and we're not going to allow it to stand. Now Reuters is also reporting at this hour that the White House is apparently working on this at a rapid pace because they believe it is time to hold banks accountable that targeted people specifically for their political beliefs.
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Now, after speaking with people at the.
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White House late this afternoon, here's what I can also tell you. The White House, I've been told, is in fact preparing an executive order that would empower the regulators to penalize banks for, quote, terminating customer relationships based on political beliefs. These penalties could include hefty fines, I'm being told, and also disciplinary actions. Now, financial regulators would be instructed to investigate potential breaches, not only the Equal Credit Opportunity Act I mentioned earlier, and antitrust laws, but also consumer protection regulations by banks accused of politically motivated actions against those who had bank accounts at their bank. The draft order also calls on policymakers to revoke existing internal bank policies that actually may have led to politically motivated account closures and directs the Small Business Administration to review loan back practices that could involve similar issues as well. Now, although no banks are mentioned by name, the order appears tied to public criticism of major institutions such as JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America, accused of severing ties with conservative clients, a charge that, of course, they strongly deny. And the Wall Street Journal has reported on this extensively recently. Now, according to others, the order could be signed, like I said, this week, potentially spelling major trouble for big banks. Now, this move reflects Donald Trump's ongoing concern, especially from conservative circles, about political bias or debanking in financial services. It forms part of a broader regulatory agenda to ensure economic institutions remain neutral and customers aren't penalized for political beliefs. At the end of the day, the president of the United States of America wants to make sure you're not targeted because you voted for him, and in the future, to make sure that no matter who you vote for, you're not targeted by a bank. Now, the order has not been officially issued yet, and there's a very good chance there will be changes that are made in the coming days and hours. Banks and regulators also are remaining relatively quiet, and the White House is saying they're willing to talk. But there's many that are scared what may be coming down the pipeline. And the big question is this, which agencies are actually going to lead enforcement?
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Oversight, I'm being told, is likely going.
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To be by federal banking regulators, the Department of Justice and the sba. Implementation details are going to work through.
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The White House in the hours and days ahead.
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At the end of the day, what does this mean? Well, it means that Donald Trump's looking out for conservatives that have been targeted.
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Solely because of our political beliefs.
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That's exactly why so many Americans voted for him.
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Ben Ferguson
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