Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz. Ben Ferguson
Speaker 1: with you and Senator Cruz unfortunately could not do the
Speaker 1: show with me right now because he has lost his voice.
Speaker 1: He did, however, I have enough strength to deal with
Speaker 1: questioning today of elist tephonic and the confirmation hearing, and
Speaker 1: I'm going to have that for you. Plus we're going
Speaker 1: to talk about the big news of Donald Trump saying
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a ninety day moratorium on fourign A.
Speaker 1: What does that mean, Well, it means that Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: is going to have a lot to look at when
Speaker 1: it comes to where your tax dollars are going. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have for you back from January seventeenth, Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio and Ted Cruz's conversation on the three questions that
Speaker 1: he said he'll ask regarding every state department program. Before
Speaker 1: we get into that, though, I want to talk to
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Speaker 1: Senator Cruz has lost his voice. I could literally not
Speaker 1: even talk to him earlier. We were having to communicate
Speaker 1: in texts. But what he did do today was some
Speaker 1: pretty incredible work on the Hill. Senator Cruz question at
Speaker 1: least a phonic and the confirmation hearing, and I want
Speaker 1: you to hear what he had to say. Also, I'm
Speaker 1: going to play for you in a moment the back
Speaker 1: and forth with Marco Rubio and what is changing at
Speaker 1: the time State Department. This in light of the big
Speaker 1: breaking news from the President about pausing foreign aid for
Speaker 1: ninety days.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: After that, I'm also going to have something else for you.
Speaker 1: There's also a new morning podcast that I'm the host
Speaker 1: of called The forty seven Morning Update. It gives you
Speaker 1: the biggest news in a short form podcast ten to
Speaker 1: twelve minutes of what is going to happen each and
Speaker 1: every day in Donald Trump's administration from the Oval Office.
Speaker 1: We'll have that for you as well, But first take
Speaker 1: a listen to what Senator Cruz had to say today
Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill in the questioning of Elie staphonic.
Speaker 3: Congratulations on your nomination.
Speaker 4: You're going to be terrific.
Speaker 3: I want to go back to topic you discussed with
Speaker 3: Senator Cornyn. I want to focus on a Ram's push
Speaker 3: to build a nuclear arsenal, which poses I think the
Speaker 3: most immediate and acute threat to American national security. When
Speaker 3: the Iatola chance death to America, he means it, and
Speaker 3: I believe he would absolutely detonate a nuclear weapon over
Speaker 3: an American city if he could. The Trump administration got
Speaker 3: Iran's nuclear program in a box and kept it there.
Speaker 3: President Trump withdrew from the catastrophic Obama Iran nuclear deal
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen. He imposed maximum pressure in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 3: He invoked the UN snapback mechanism in the UN Security
Speaker 3: Council Resolution two two three one to reimpose international sanctions
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty. For that entire time, Iran was deterred
Speaker 3: from making significant advances on their nuclear program. They did
Speaker 3: not even enrich uranium above five percent or cascade advanced centrifuges.
Speaker 3: Starting in November twenty twenty, the Iranian regime gambled that
Speaker 3: it could start rushing to a nuclear arsenal and the
Speaker 3: incoming Biden administration would let them. Unfortunately proved correct. In November,
Speaker 3: the regime approved a new law calling for major nuclear advances.
Speaker 3: In January, they started enriching at twenty percent at fordoh
Speaker 3: the underground enrichment bunker built into a mountain that the
Speaker 3: Obama Iran nuclear deal left open. The incoming and Biden
Speaker 3: administration responded with appeasement. In February, immediately after being inaugurated,
Speaker 3: they rushed to the UN to rescind President Trump's snapback,
Speaker 3: again allowing international sanctions to expire for the next four years.
Speaker 3: The administration continually dismantled pressure on the regime and refused
Speaker 3: to impose sanctions. We know the result today, the Ayatola
Speaker 3: has achieved a nuclear breakout time of zero. We now
Speaker 3: face the very real possibility of an Iranian nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 3: I do not believe that this is a threat the
Speaker 3: US can tolerate, and I am confident that both the
Speaker 3: President and Secretary of State Rubio agree. I ask Secretary
Speaker 3: of State Rubio whether he intends to go to the
Speaker 3: United Nations, and again trigger the snapback mechanism. As a
Speaker 3: part of his written testimony to this committee. Here was
Speaker 3: Secretary of Rubio's response, quote, I believe it is in
Speaker 3: our national security interest for the UN Security Council to
Speaker 3: snap back the sanctions that were suspended under the JCPOA.
Speaker 3: I will execute the President's guidance and work with our
Speaker 3: allies to ensure that snapback takes place. First, do you
Speaker 3: agree with Secretary of Rubio's assessment that it is in
Speaker 3: the national security interests of the United States to snap
Speaker 3: back those sanctions? Yes, talk about how you would execute
Speaker 3: a strategy to do so, either unilaterally or working with allies.
Speaker 5: That will be a strategy that I developed with the
Speaker 5: National Security Council, in tandem with Secretary of Rubio and
Speaker 5: President Trump, to work with our allies within the United Nations,
Speaker 5: within the Security Council. And there are allies that are
Speaker 5: already considering this and looking at it, and that has
Speaker 5: been publicly reported. But obviously, pushing back on Iran is
Speaker 5: a top priority. It was a success during President Trump's
Speaker 5: first term, and we've seen the catastrophic results in loss
Speaker 5: of life during the previous four years. When you have
Speaker 5: had an embolded Iran that has led to directly the
Speaker 5: October seventh terrorist attack against Israel and his Belah firing
Speaker 5: tens of thousands of rockets against Israeli civilians.
Speaker 3: Let's move to another topic. You and I talked about
Speaker 3: the deep rot in the United Nations when it comes
Speaker 3: to supporting terrorism against America and our allies, especially Israel.
Speaker 3: As you discussed with Senator McCormick, UNRA has for decades
Speaker 3: provided material support for Hamas and other terrorist groups in Gaza.
Speaker 3: World Health Organization has also been deeply complicit in the
Speaker 3: use of hospitals by Hamas for terrorist activities, including for
Speaker 3: the holding of hostages. The complicity of these organizations deepened
Speaker 3: after October seventh, the Biden administration embraced UNRA, and the
Speaker 3: World Health Organization. Congress prohibited the Biden administration from funding UNRA,
Speaker 3: but the administration officials circumvented that prohibition by using UNRA infrastructure. Yesterday,
Speaker 3: the President rightly and immediately withdrew our participation from them.
Speaker 3: I think that was a critical first step. But the
Speaker 3: next step is to enable American citizens to hold these
Speaker 3: organizations accountable.
Speaker 4: We currently have a very odd.
Speaker 3: Legal environment where these organizations enjoy more sovereign immunity than
Speaker 3: states and thus are shielded from accountability. Last Congress, I
Speaker 3: introduced the Liable Act and was joined by four current
Speaker 3: members of this Committee, including as well as Secretary of
Speaker 3: State Rubio. The bill will allow American victims of terrorism
Speaker 3: and their family to sue international organizations that support terrorism
Speaker 3: against this I will soon reintroduce it in this Congress.
Speaker 3: What is your understanding of the role these organizations have
Speaker 3: played in facilitating terrorism against Americans, Israelis and our allies.
Speaker 5: Well, UNRA, there were individuals in UNRA who participated, who
Speaker 5: executed and committed terrorist acts against Israel. On October seventh, Sinwar,
Speaker 5: the leader of HAMAS carried an UNRA passport. You had
Speaker 5: a HAMAS data center under UNRA headquarters. So the rot
Speaker 5: is deep. Congress made the right decision. I was proud
Speaker 5: to be one of the leaders when it came to
Speaker 5: defunding UNRA, and I am committed to holding them accountable
Speaker 5: and working with the US Senate and the US House
Speaker 5: and the President if that legislation passes.
Speaker 3: Pterfect, thank you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: There's also other big news that we want to talk about,
Speaker 1: and that deals with the Secretary of State. The Secretary
Speaker 1: of State now has an even bigger job than any
Speaker 1: Secretary of State had during the time of Joe Biden
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris being in office. And what's really cool about
Speaker 1: what's happening now is Donald Trump is empowering leaders to
Speaker 1: do their job.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: Now, there was some big breaking news, and that is
Speaker 1: that President Donald Trump signed an executive order suspending all
Speaker 1: US foreign assistance programs for ninety days, pending a comprehensive
Speaker 1: review to ensure their alignment with his administration's policy objectives. Now,
Speaker 1: this suspension affects a wide range of global initiatives, including
Speaker 1: humanitarian aid, economic development, and health programs. Notably, the US
Speaker 1: contributes approximately seventy point three billion annually in foreign aid,
Speaker 1: supporting various international efforts. So what did the President do.
Speaker 1: He said it's time for all of this to go
Speaker 1: back under a review and is calling out other countries
Speaker 1: for what he described was not paying their fair share.
Speaker 1: Who's going to be looking over this, well, that would
Speaker 1: be Marco Rubio. He will do a deep dive into
Speaker 1: where your tax tours are going and then come back
Speaker 1: with recommendations. What's also interesting is how this relates back
Speaker 1: to Marco Rubio and his conversation with Senator Cruz on
Speaker 1: January seventeenth. Take a listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 3: Then, thank you, mister chairman. And I got to say, boy,
Speaker 3: that sounds good.
Speaker 2: Mister chairman, that is as good as it sounds to me.
Speaker 3: Thank you well, congratulations and I'm looking forward to the
Speaker 3: next two years working together. Thank you and the Sener Rubio,
Speaker 3: let me say congratulations to you as well. We're going
Speaker 3: to miss you on this committee. We're going to miss
Speaker 3: you in the Senate, but you're going to do an
Speaker 3: extraordinary job at Foggy Bottom. And I will say, if
Speaker 3: they capture you and tie you up in the basement,
Speaker 3: we will send a team to pull you out. You know,
Speaker 3: as I look back over the last four years of
Speaker 3: the Biden Harris administration, there are a lot of policies
Speaker 3: that have done a lot of damage domestic policies, economic policies,
Speaker 3: but I think all of the those pale compared to
Speaker 3: the damage that has been done to national security and
Speaker 3: foreign policy over the last four years. Over the last
Speaker 3: four years, this administration is systematically undermined and abandoned our allies,
Speaker 3: and it has systematically shown weakness and appeasement to our enemies,
Speaker 3: and the consequence has been disastrous. We've gone from four
Speaker 3: years ago peace and prosperity to today a situation with
Speaker 3: wars across the globe and every enemy of America stronger
Speaker 3: than they were when this administration came into office. I
Speaker 3: am confident the incoming administration is going to change that direction.
Speaker 3: I am confident that President Trump and the White House,
Speaker 3: and you as Secretary of State, are going to shift
Speaker 3: us back to where we should be, which is standing
Speaker 3: by our friends and allies and standing up to our enemies.
Speaker 3: Do you agree with that assessment? Is that what you
Speaker 3: intend to do a Secretary of State?
Speaker 6: Well, let me say first to foreign plse the United
Speaker 6: States will be set by the President, and my job
Speaker 6: is to advise on it and ultimately to execute. I
Speaker 6: think the President has been abundantly clear, and that is
Speaker 6: his policy is going to be driven about making America safer, stronger,
Speaker 6: and more prosperous. As I said in my opening statement,
Speaker 6: everything the State Department does, every policy, every program, every
Speaker 6: dollar it spends, every initiative it takes has to answer
Speaker 6: three questions. Does it make us safer? Does it make
Speaker 6: us stronger or does it make us more prosperous? And
Speaker 6: if it doesn't, if the answer is not yes to
Speaker 6: one of those three, you're going to have a hard
Speaker 6: time moving that forward because that's the priority to the president,
Speaker 6: and that's the priority that, by the way, voters gave
Speaker 6: this president when they elected him. You point to a
Speaker 6: number of things that I think are critically important that
Speaker 6: and let me I'll phrase it a different way, but
Speaker 6: I think we're saying the same thing. We have lost
Speaker 6: to terrence and multiple theaters around the world. So as
Speaker 6: an example, and I use this as a small scale example,
Speaker 6: but it's really important. One I think of the year
Speaker 6: was twenty twenty, twenty nineteen. The Wagner group tried to
Speaker 6: get cute and came after some of Americans, Americans operating
Speaker 6: in series and fire from the sky rained down on them,
Speaker 6: and that group was pushed back pretty hard. That's deterrence.
Speaker 6: They threatened us, and they knew what the response would be.
Speaker 6: I recall the consternation here and in other places when
Speaker 6: Solomoni met his demise, but I can tell you it
Speaker 6: impacted Ranian behavior for a substantial period of time. No
Speaker 6: matter how tough they talked it impacted their behavior. I
Speaker 6: think it's important to re establish de terrence and to
Speaker 6: the extent that that's been lost for a variety of reasons.
Speaker 6: The lack of deterrence is an invitation to war. The
Speaker 6: lack of deterrence is an invitation to hostility. It prevents
Speaker 6: the very thing that we hope to achieve, which is
Speaker 6: peace and stability in the world. And I do think
Speaker 6: we've lost the terrence, and I think in some ways
Speaker 6: it contributed to what happened in Ukraine. An item I
Speaker 6: know is very close to you and you've worked very on,
Speaker 6: and we talked earlier today about is energy dependence. I
Speaker 6: recall President Trump at both a NATO summit and at
Speaker 6: the United Nations, and I called the United Nations one
Speaker 6: in particular. President Trump said Germany is dependent, entirely going
Speaker 6: to be left dependent on China, on Russia for its energy,
Speaker 6: and they laughed at him. There were diplomats in the
Speaker 6: hall that was snickering. That's exactly what happened. It is
Speaker 6: one of the reasons why Putin believed he could invade
Speaker 6: Europe is because Europe would not push back because they
Speaker 6: depended on him so much for energy. Now Europe is
Speaker 6: to be congratulated. They have moved very swiftly, particularly the Germans,
Speaker 6: to diversify their energy resources. But one could argue that
Speaker 6: we may never have had that invasion had that dependent
Speaker 6: not existed, because maybe who would have thought the European
Speaker 6: response would have been more forceful than he anticipated. So
Speaker 6: I do think re establishing deterrence and strength is important
Speaker 6: because it prevents war and it gives us leverage and diplomacy,
Speaker 6: which where we hope to solve ninety nine point nine
Speaker 6: percent of the global disagreements we hope to solve through diplomacy,
Speaker 6: not through armed conflict.
Speaker 3: I think that's very well said.
Speaker 2: Now, as I mentioned earlier, Senator Cruz lost his voice.
Speaker 1: We expect him hopefully to be back with us on
Speaker 1: Friday after getting some rest. But let me put something
Speaker 1: else on your radar screen real quick. Many of you
Speaker 1: that voted for Donald Trump and support the MAGA agenda
Speaker 1: have said for a long time that you would love
Speaker 1: to have something each and every day that gives you
Speaker 1: kind of a blueprint of what the administration is actually
Speaker 1: working on. Well, I am hosting a new podcast called
Speaker 1: The forty seven Morning Update. You can grab it wherever
Speaker 1: you get your podcasts, and I'm gonna let you hear
Speaker 1: exactly what that podcast sounds like. It is a short podcast,
Speaker 1: ten to twelve minutes to start your day. Take a listen.
Speaker 7: Five hundred billion dollars in AI infrastructure.
Speaker 8: Start team there as of today.
Speaker 2: You're fired. Get out of here. You're fired, Get out,
Speaker 2: Get the.
Speaker 9: Hell out of here. You're listening to the forty seven
Speaker 9: Morning Update with Ben Ferguson.
Speaker 2: Good morning, It's Ben Ferguson. It's nice to have you
Speaker 2: with us.
Speaker 1: Here are the big stories that we're covering today on
Speaker 1: the forty seven Morning up Date.
Speaker 2: First up, it's black Tuesday.
Speaker 1: When it comes to federal workers, they're getting pink slips
Speaker 1: from Donald Trump saying you're fired. So who all lost
Speaker 1: their jobs? And why I'll have that for you in
Speaker 1: a moment. Also, Donald Trump moved America forward with a
Speaker 1: five hundred billion dollar AI investment from the private sector.
Speaker 2: That's happening right here in the US of A.
Speaker 1: Finally, promise is made and promises kept on border security,
Speaker 1: major moves by President Trump to make sure that we
Speaker 1: have a secure southern border. It's the forty seven Morning
Speaker 1: Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 4: Story number one.
Speaker 1: It was black Tuesday for many in the federal government,
Speaker 1: as the head of the TSA and the Coast Guard
Speaker 1: were fired on Trump's first full day in office. President
Speaker 1: Trump moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security,
Speaker 1: firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and the
Speaker 1: Coast Guard before their terms were even up, and eliminated
Speaker 1: all all members of a key aviation security advisory group
Speaker 1: as well. Now, Trump's immigration policy changes through the most
Speaker 1: attention at Homeland Security, but he's also making changes at
Speaker 1: the rest of the massive agency. Members of the Aviation
Speaker 1: Security Advisory Committee received a memo Tuesday morning saying that
Speaker 1: the Department is eliminating the membership of all advisory committees
Speaker 1: as part of a commitment to eliminating the misuse of
Speaker 1: resources and ensuring that the Department of homelanded security activities
Speaker 1: prioritize specifically our national security. The Aviation Security Committee, which
Speaker 1: was mandated by Congress after the nineteen eighty eight PM
Speaker 1: one oh three bombing over Lockinbee, Scotland, will technically continue
Speaker 1: to exist, but it won't have any members to carry
Speaker 1: out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and
Speaker 1: airports liberals are claiming at this hour, but the reality
Speaker 1: is there are plenty of people that are doing that
Speaker 1: right now. Who's angry about it? Well, major unions, that's right,
Speaker 1: because the airlines and majored unions were a member of
Speaker 1: the group associated with all of this government bureaucracy. This
Speaker 1: is another example of Donald Trump saying I'm coming in
Speaker 1: and I'm cleaning house.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: That isn't all who lost their jobs in our bloated government.
Speaker 1: You know, Donald Trump became very famous for being the
Speaker 1: guy that says you're fired. Well, Donald Trump is telling
Speaker 1: many Biden appointees you're out of a job, and now
Speaker 1: it's a he said. She said, no, no, no, you
Speaker 1: didn't fire me. I already quit. I wish I was joking,
Speaker 1: but I'm not. Donald Trump says he plans to remove
Speaker 1: over one thousand Biden appointees, and there are many that
Speaker 1: are very angry about President Donald Trump on Tuesday saying
Speaker 1: I have these plans because I'm not keeping any of
Speaker 1: them Joe Biden's appointees from their government positions. He said, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gone, and he had already fired four individuals immediately,
Speaker 1: including a celebrity shift, Jose Andreas and a former top general,
Speaker 1: Mark Milly. You're fired, is what Trump wrote in an
Speaker 1: early morning post on his True social platform that named
Speaker 1: Milly and Andreas, as well as his former Iran envoy
Speaker 1: Brian Hook and the former Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms,
Speaker 1: who Biden appointed to an export council. Andreas and Bottom
Speaker 1: said they quote unquote had already quit their posts before
Speaker 1: Trump's inauguration. Trump's post said his personal office is quote
Speaker 1: actively in the process of identifying and removing over one
Speaker 1: thousand presidential appointees from the Biden administration who are quote
Speaker 1: not aligned with our vision to make America great again.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump wasn't done there.
Speaker 1: When it came to changing things very quickly, he also
Speaker 1: decided to move to another issue. Trump ordered all federal diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and Inclusion employees based on paid leave starting on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Yes NBC News reporting that the Trump administration also directed
Speaker 1: government agencies to draw plans for firing workers in DEI roles.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration is ordering all federal employees the White
Speaker 1: House announced in these roles on paid lead by Wednesday
Speaker 1: evening at five o'clock that according to a new memo
Speaker 1: from the Office of Personnel Management. The memo, issued Tuesday
Speaker 1: to heads of departments and government agencies set that deadline
Speaker 1: of no later than five pm Eastern Time Wednesday to
Speaker 1: inform the employees that they will be put on paid
Speaker 1: administrative leave as the agencies prepare to close all diversity,
Speaker 1: equity and inclusion related offices and programs and to also
Speaker 1: remove all websites and social media accounts for such offices immediately.
Speaker 1: This is another promise Donald Trump made to the American people,
Speaker 1: and he's seeing it through clearly, starting in his very
Speaker 1: first week in office.
Speaker 4: Now story number two in major.
Speaker 1: Breaking news coming from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump
Speaker 1: on Tuesday announced Stargate Project.
Speaker 2: Now, what is that.
Speaker 1: It is a new American company which will invest five
Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars over the next four years building a
Speaker 1: new AI infrastructure, specifically in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: The President also asked Oracles Larry Ellison, Soft Bank CEO,
Speaker 1: and Open AI Sam Altman to the White House for
Speaker 1: this major announcement, where President Trump explained it this.
Speaker 7: Way to my honor to welcome three of the world's
Speaker 7: leading technology CEOs and in the case of Larry, Larry Ellison,
Speaker 7: it's well beyond technology is sort of CEO of everything.
Speaker 7: He's an amazing man, an amazing business person. But to
Speaker 7: announce the largest AI infrastructure project by farign history, and
Speaker 7: it's all taking place right here in America. As you know,
Speaker 7: there's great competition for AI and other things, and they're
Speaker 7: coming in at the highest level. We're joined by Oracle
Speaker 7: executive chairman Larry Ellison, Soft Bank CEO, my friend Masa
Speaker 7: Masa Yoshi's son and CEO of Open AI, and I
Speaker 7: would say, by far the leading expert based on everything
Speaker 7: I read, Sam Altman. So that's great that you're coming
Speaker 7: in together. That's a massive group of talent and money. Together,
Speaker 7: these world leading technology giants are announcing the formation of Stargate.
Speaker 7: So put that name down in your books, because I
Speaker 7: think you're going to hear a lot about it in
Speaker 7: the future. A new American company that will invest five
Speaker 7: hundred billion dollars at least in AI infrastructure in the
Speaker 7: United States and very very quickly, moving very rapidly, creating
Speaker 7: over one hundred thousand American jobs almost immediately.
Speaker 1: This massive project is going to create, as you heard
Speaker 1: the President just say, there over one hundred thousand high
Speaker 1: quality jobs, and it will catapult America in front of
Speaker 1: China in the AI race. Not only will this create
Speaker 1: more than one hundred thousand American jobs and significantly advance
Speaker 1: AI applications, particularly and this is the part that many
Speaker 1: Americans should be the most excited about in healthcare, such
Speaker 1: as early disease detection and personalized treatments, key figures from
Speaker 1: the private sector. Putting this all together, joining President Trump
Speaker 1: with this announcement at the White House is proof yet again,
Speaker 1: as Donald Trump has put it, that if we want
Speaker 1: to fix the biggest problems in the world, we should
Speaker 1: be looking to the private sector and not the US
Speaker 1: government to do it.
Speaker 4: And lastly, story number three.
Speaker 1: Promise is made, promise is kept. When it comes to
Speaker 1: national security and the Southern Border, the man who's in
Speaker 1: charge of securing the Southern Border, Tom Homan, said today
Speaker 1: that ice deportation operations have already begun.
Speaker 8: Teams are all there as of today. We gave them
Speaker 8: the in direction to prioritize public safety threats that we're
Speaker 8: looking for, so we've been working on the target list.
Speaker 8: There was some discussion about with Chicago because a Pacific
Speaker 8: operational plan was released so we had to look at
Speaker 8: and reevaluate does this raise after safety concerns? And it does,
Speaker 8: but we address that and teams are all the effective today.
Speaker 1: Teams are out there today. So what exactly has happened
Speaker 1: since Donald Trump was sworn in? I have the list
Speaker 1: for you now. It is a list that the media
Speaker 1: is not wanting to talk about because it's actually a
Speaker 1: very extensive list of promises made and promises kept. So
Speaker 1: let's go through it so you know exactly where we
Speaker 1: are in the process of securing the border. On January
Speaker 1: twenty first, Donald Trump signed several executive orders aimed at
Speaker 1: strengthening border security. Number one, a National Emergency Declaration declaring
Speaker 1: a national emergency at the US Mexico border, enabling the
Speaker 1: deployment of federal troops to assist in border enforcement. There
Speaker 1: was another promise that was made, and that deal with
Speaker 1: the remain in Mexico policy. Well, Donald Trump paid off
Speaker 1: on that promise, reinstating the policy requiring asylum seekers to
Speaker 1: wait in Mexico during US immigration proceedings, which will have
Speaker 1: a massive impact on stopping the flow of illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: across the border. One of the other major issues Donald
Speaker 1: Trump talked about back in the campaign in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: for president was building a border wall, while Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is ordered the resumption and now the completion of the
Speaker 1: border wall along the southern border as fast as humanly
Speaker 1: pos Also, in another major move, and the media lost
Speaker 1: their minds over this, Donald Trump decided to terminate birthright citizenship,
Speaker 1: signing an order to end automatic US citizenship for a
Speaker 1: child born in the US to an undocumented immigrant. This
Speaker 1: move is likely going to face major legal challenges due
Speaker 1: to the fourteenth Amendment. That doesn't mean that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: isn't willing to have that conversation now. Donald Trump also
Speaker 1: took a major action which shocked the world, especially those
Speaker 1: that advocate for illegal immigrants. He decided to suspend the
Speaker 1: CBP one app. Now Disabling this app, which allows migrants
Speaker 1: to schedule legal entry appointments, resulted in cancelations for thousands
Speaker 1: and thousands of applicants, sending a very clear message that
Speaker 1: you can't just come across a wide open southern border
Speaker 1: and think we are going to let you stay here.
Speaker 1: The app right now does not. And also, in what
Speaker 1: is being described as the biggest and boldest move of
Speaker 1: all of these actions, is the present's decision to designate
Speaker 1: cartels as terrorists organizations. Classifying certain drug cartels and gangs
Speaker 1: such as MS thirteen as foreign terrorist organizations, would allow
Speaker 1: for aggressive actions to be taken against them, including using
Speaker 1: the US military. You combine all of this together, and
Speaker 1: this marks a significant shift in US immigration policy, reflecting
Speaker 1: every turn to an expansion of measures from President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's first term. In translation, Donald Trump made a lot
Speaker 1: of promises and he is keeping them, especially when it
Speaker 1: comes to securing the southern border.
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